Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

Chapter 237: Airship Ouranos

An aircraft appeared after the light from the transmutation converged.

15m long and 10m wide. Each wingtip had a float-shaped magic device to keep the aircraft in balance when landing on water, and three landing gears to support the main body of the aircraft. It had taken on an organic shape reminiscent of an insect in some respects.

「Oohh! It’s a success! So cool!」

Laeva touched the transmuted airship all excitedly.

I checked whether the elevators, rudder, and air brakes were working properly.

「……what a relief, everything’s all good.」

「That’s amazing, Takumi. The color looks good too.」

「Thank you very much, Doganbo-san. May I ask you to do the cockpit and seats?」

「Ou, it’s fine to do it after the space is expanded, right? Leave it to me.」

Doganbo-san who had been observing was also somewhat thrilled.

It was then that Sophia and the others who were slightly distanced also came over.

「Congratulations, Takumi-sama.」

「Amazing! It doesn’t look like a ship!」

Sophia and Maria congratulated me. After that, Akane and Lulu-chan began talking too.

「It’s so-so. Have you decided on a name?」

「What a pretty sky blue color nya.」

「A name, huh………… Ouranos, I choose Airship Ouranos.」

「Hmm~, that’s nice.」

The name was taken from the God of the sky in Greek mythology, “Ouranos”. And the cruiser ship, which I called Arcadia only within my heart, was named after the Greek God of the sea “Oceanus”.

The Airship Ouranos was largely accepted by everyone, so that was relieving.

Afterwards, I first set the enchantment for Space Expansion spell in order to create living space in the fuselage.

The 15m long, 3m wide fuselage expanded by five-fold inside. Doganbo-san then directed his Dwarven comrades to work on the interior.

I returned to the workshop and started on the wings’ propulsors, a rear jet engine, and a suspension magic device to keep the entire aircraft afloat.

The jet engine that would be installed on main body of the aircraft would blow out wind towards the rear, but the float-like propulsors would spew wind towards the front and the rear.

There’s no issue even if the propulsors didn’t have the opening like normal podded engines because of magic.

In fact, the sky blue paint isn’t normal paint either. The body was seriously enchanted with a Strength Enhancing spell, but the paint itself was also imbued with an Inhibit Perception enchantment. I had once thought badly of stealth aircrafts in the other world, but I’d like to avoid being too inconspicuous once we move around the Demon Continent.

After I made two Wind attribute magic devices that utilized the basketball-sized magic crystal, I moved on to creating the suspension magic device.

The magic of flotation is a Null attribute magic known as 『Levitation』. Ordinarily, it is perceived as a useless spell that just floats lightly. It doesn’t have the same freedom to fly in the sky as 『Fly』, so the extent of its use was as a vibration countermeasure for high class golem carriages.

However, as vertical take off was a necessity for the Airship Ouranos, a combination of a propulsion device that utilizes Wind attribute spells with one that uses a levitation spell was essential.

I used magic crystals over 60cm in size because it was necessary to keep the entire aircraft afloat, but honestly, magic crystals of this size wasn’t necessary just for a levitation spell. These would also act as a power source for all magic devices aboard the ship.

The inside isn’t that spacious, but I’ve planned for four private rooms each with their own shower and toilet, so there is a need to supply magic power to the magic devices for the lighting, toilets, showers.

I manufactured the weapons, two Mana Gatling Guns and one Holy Bolt Cannon. The magic crystal I’ll process and use for this is a sub-dragon class magic stone.

The gun barrel used durable adamantite alloy instead of mithril alloy which had a high affinity with magic power. One gatling gun consists of a set of four barrels. These would be installed at the middle of the wings.

After creating all the magic devices connected to the interior, I headed to the shipbuilding dock.

When I arrived at the shipbuilding dock, Laeva was giving instructions to install the canopy.

「Okay, stop! Please install it there!」

「Yo! Things are smooth sailing, yeah?」

「Ah, Takumi-sama. Work is all going well.」

「Can I leave furnishing the interior with magic devices to you?」

「Please leave it to me!」

I took out the light fixtures and toilet purifiers then handed them to Laeva, while I started mounting the weapons.

That day, we worked until dark to finish mounting the weapons and the propulsion devices.

It took 10 days to set up the control system and finish the interior.

Kaede and Maria helped out with the interior, which included the cockpit and seats for our party members, furniture and more, so things were finished in that timespan.

And so, 10 days after its transmutation, the Airship Ouranos could have its test flight.

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